The University of Missouri wants to establish a clinical campus in Springfield in an expansion of the university’s medical school, but first it needs a 5,000- to 6,000-square-foot building between the city’s two major hospitals.

Washington University’s continued use of sedated cats and ferrets to train medical students how to insert breathing tubes down babies’ throats is cruel, ineffective and unnecessary, according to a medical ethics group pressuring the school to abandon the practice.